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Job 41:24
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Its heart is as hard as a stone,Even as hard as a lower millstone.
"His heart is as hard as a stone, Even as hard as a lower millstone.
His heart is as hard as a stone, and as fast as the stythie that the smyth smiteth vpon.
His heart is firm as a stone, yea, firm as the nether [millstone].
His heart is as hard as stone, Even as hard as the lower millstone.
His heart is cast hard as a stone, even cast hard as a piece of a lower millstone .
His heart is like a rock; he has no fear. It is as hard as a millstone.
His heart is as firm as a stone, Yes, firm as the lower millstone.
His heart is as firme as a stone, yea as hard as a peece of the nether mil-stone.
His hert is as harde as a stone, ad as fast as the styth ye that the hammer man smyteth vpon.
His heart is as firm as a stone; Yea, firm as the nether millstone.
His heart is as strong as a stone, hard as the lower crushing-stone.
His heart is as firm as a stone; Yes, firm as the nether millstone.
His heart is as firm as a stone; yes, as hard as a piece of the nether [millstone].
Its heart is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.
and its heart is stone.
He leaves a shining wake behind him, making the deep seem to have white hair.
His heart is as strong as a stone, & as hard as the nether milstone.
His meat is good and fat, and it is nourishing.
"His heart is as hard as a stone, Indeed, as solid as a lower millstone.
His heart is as firm as a stone, Yes, firm as the lower millstone.
He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.
Its heart is hard as rock, hard as a millstone.
His heart is as hard as a stone, even as hard as a grinding-stone.
There is nothing upon the earth like to him, formed to be sported with by my angels.
His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, firm as the nether millstone.
His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!
Its heart is as hard as stone, as hard as the lower millstone.
His heart, is hardened like a stone, yea hardened, like the nether millstone;
(41-15) His heart shall be as hard as a stone, and as firm as a smith’s anvil,
Its heart is cast as stone; yes, it is cast as the lower millstone.
His heart is hard as a stone, hard as the lower millstone.
"His heart is as firm as a stone, And as firm as a lower millstone.
Its chest is as hard as a rock, even as hard as a grinding stone.
His stony heart is without fear, as unyielding and hard as a millstone.
His heart is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!
His herte schal be maad hard as a stoon; and it schal be streyned togidere as the anefeld of a smith.
His heart [is] firm as a stone, Yea, firm as the lower piece.
His heart is hard as a stone, hard as the nether millstone.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
as hard: Isaiah 48:4, Jeremiah 5:3, Zechariah 7:12
Reciprocal: Job 6:12 - of brass Job 41:33 - is made
Cross-References
And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had said.
Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether [millstone]. Which must be understood not of the substance but of the qualities of it, being bold, courageous, undaunted, and unmerciful; which is true both of the whale and crocodile, and particularly of the crocodile: Aelianus z relates of one sort of them that they are unmerciful, though elsewhere a, he represents them as fearful.
z De Animal. l. 12. c. 41. a Ibid. l. 10. c. 24.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
His heart is as firm as a stone - As hard; as solid. Bochart remarks that the word âheartâ here is not to be regarded as denoting the âcourageâ of the animal, as it sometimes does, but the heart literally. The statement occurs in the description of the various parts of the animal, and the object is to show that there was special firmness or solidity in every one of his members. There is special firmness or strength needed in the âheartsâ of all animals, to enable them to propel the blood through the arteries of the body; and in an animal of the size of the crocodile, it is easy to see that the heart must be made capable of exerting vast force. But there is no reason to suppose that the affirmation here is made on the supposition that there is need of extraordinary strength in the heart to propel the blood. The doctrine of the circulation of the blood was not then known to mankind, and it is to be presumed that the argument here would be based on what âwasâ known, or what might be easily observed. The presumption therefore is, that the statement here is based on what had been âseenâ of the remarkable compactness and firmness of the heart of the animal here referred to. Probably there was nothing so unique in the heart of the crocodile that this description would be applicable to that animal alone, but it is such doubtless as would apply to the heart of any animal of extraordinary size and strength.
Yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone - The mills commonly used in ancient times were hand-mills; see a description of them in the notes at Matthew 24:41. Why the lower stone was the hardest, is not quite apparent. Perhaps a more solid stone might have been chosen for this, because it was supposed that there was more wear on the lower than the upper stone, or because its weight would make the machine more solid and steady.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 41:24. Hard as a piece of the nether millstone.] Which is required to be harder than that which runs above.
